House Democrats Appear Set to Pass Senate Bill Without Voting on It
By Jon Ward
Friday, March 12

Republicans now expect Democrats to pass health care through the House with a trick only Capitol Hill could dream up: approving the Senate bill without voting on it.

It’s called the “Slaughter Solution” (prepare for a weekend of endless TV gabbing about it).

And after debating House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer on the chamber floor, Minority Whip Eric Cantor emerged convinced that Democrats are going to use the tactic, and that they won’t allow Republicans, and the public, to see the text of any legislation for 72 hours before a vote.

“I can infer that we’re going to see a rule that will deem the Senate bill as having passed, and at the same time not even have 72 hours to even look at what they are passing,” Cantor, a Virginia Republican, said in an interview outside his office at the Capitol.

“The outrage to me on the part of the public is going to be focused on the fact that there is not even an up or down vote, a clean up or down vote,” Cantor said.

Here’s the reason Democrats are using such a complicated procedure: many in the House completely do not trust the Senate to pass fixes to the bill passed by the Senate in December. But according to the rules of reconciliation, the House must go first in passing the Senate bill and passing a reconciliation fix.

So House Democrats have been searching for a way to alleviate members’ concerns that if they vote for the Senate bill and the Senate does nothing to fix it, they will be hung out to dry as having supported a piece of legislation that many across the country dislike, either for spending reasons, or because of special provisions like the extra money for Nebraska’s Medicaid population (the “Cornhusker kickback”).

Technically, using the “Slaughter solution,” they’ll never have voted for the bill they find odious, even if their vote on the reconciliation legislation will have been the vote that passed the Senate bill into law.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, alluded to all this at her weekly press conference Friday.

“There are certain assurances that they want and that we will get for them before I ask them to take a vote,” Pelosi said.

The “Slaughter solution” is named for House Rules Committee Chairman Louise Slaughter, the New York Democrat who came up with the idea. She told the Daily Caller on Thursday that the chances of her procedure being used were “pretty good.”

Despite doubt among some on Capitol Hill on whether the “Slaughter solution” was feasible, Cantor expressed no doubt that the tactic could be used.

“It’s a self-executing rule. It is akin to passage but hidden in a rule as a side-note, passing the 2,700-page, $1 trillion bill, oh by the way,” he said.

Hoyer rejected the idea that Republicans have not had enough time to review the legislation.

“You have had months to review the substance of that bill. You don’t like it. We understand. You’re going to oppose it. We understand that as well. The fact of the matter is you cannot say you have had no notice of each and every provision for over two months,” said Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat.

Cantor said he wanted 72 hours to review the final text of the reconciliation bill.

“The reconciliation bill is new text. He claims it’s old hat, but this is clearly where they’re reconciling differences,” Cantor said, expressing concern that Democrats would rush the final text to the House floor for a vote to keep “sweeteners” used to buy off votes from being discovered.

Democrats are coalescing around a schedule for the bill’s route to the House floor for a vote. They are expecting a final score from the Congressional Budget Office later today.

On Monday, the House Budget Committee will mark the bill up, leading to an expected vote in the Rules Committee on Wednesday, with a final vote by the full House possible next weekend.

The question remains, however, whether Pelosi will even be able to round up enough votes to pass a bill.

Momentum continued to go the wrong direction for her on Friday, as two more Democrats said they are opposed to the bill.

ARE YOU GOING TO TELL ME THAT WE STILL LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY?????.

IT SOUNDS LIKE A DICTATORSHIP TO ME!!!!

THIS SHOULD BE THE LAST STRAW!!!

TIME FOR THE AMERICAN CITIZENS TO REVOLT AGAINST THIS LEGISTRATION!!!!

City officials want to dismiss a public lewdness charge against an 81-year-old woman accused of urinating in a public park when she couldn’t make it to a bathroom.

Municipal prosecutors in Mobile filed a motion Wednesday to throw out the charge against Lula Mae Battle. The request came amid a public outcry over the arrest of Battle, who suffers from incontinence problems.

Municipal Court administrator Pete Peterson said Thursday the judge would likely rule on the city’s motion to throw out the case on Sept. 15, the day Battle is scheduled for trial.

Battle has said she was at her bank, next to Bienville Square in downtown Mobile, on June 3 when a teller refused to let her use the bathroom. Battle tried to make it to a public restroom across the park but couldn’t get there in time.

The woman lost control of her bladder as she walked, so she ducked into bushes next to a small building. But the building was a one-room police substation manned by a cadet, who called for an officer and had her arrested.

The woman was taken to jail, booked on a charge of public lewdness and released on $500 bail. The charge carries a maximum penalty of three months in jail and a $500 fine.

In anticipation of a trial, Battle said she had been saving money. She wasn’t able to pay her phone bill, so the service was cut off.

“I was trying to save,” she told the newspaper.

Police said they’ve had a persistent problem with people urinating in the downtown park. City attorney Larry Wettermark said the officer “quite correctly” charged Battle with public lewdness.

“Now, when it comes to the prosecutor’s office, we can look at it,” he said. “If there was genuinely a misunderstanding or an accident, the city is not interested in prosecuting or pushing that kind of case.

If Obamas Health care passes this will not be a problem for her or for anyone else over the age of 55, because Dr. Jack Kevorkian with be your primary healthcare provider!

Obama and Congress will make sure that he will give you the care the Goverment deems necessary to end any health problems you may have. You can also get a stone engraving with your name on it with every visit

As an economic system, fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer. The word derives from fasces, the Roman symbol of collectivism and power: a tied bundle of rods with a protruding ax. In its day (the 1920s and 1930s), fascism was seen as the happy medium between boom-and-bust-prone liberal capitalism, with its alleged class conflict, wasteful competition, and profit-oriented egoism, and revolutionary Marxism, with its violent and socially divisive persecution of the bourgeoisie. Fascism substituted the particularity of nationalism and racialism—“blood and soil”—for the internationalism of both classical liberalism and Marxism.

Where socialism sought totalitarian control of a society’s economic processes through direct state operation of the means of production, fascism sought that control indirectly, through domination of nominally private owners. Where socialism nationalized property explicitly, fascism did so implicitly, by requiring owners to use their property in the “national interest”—that is, as the autocratic authority conceived it. (Nevertheless, a few industries were operated by the state.) Where socialism abolished all market relations outright, fascism left the appearance of market relations while planning all economic activities. Where socialism abolished money and prices, fascism controlled the monetary system and set all prices and wages politically. In doing all this, fascism denatured the marketplace. Entrepreneurship was abolished. State ministries, rather than consumers, determined what was produced and under what conditions.

OBAMA WANTS HIS OWN “CIVILIAN ARMY” FUNDED THE SAME AS THE MILITARY. DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR???

WAKE UP AMERICA THIS FASCIST GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO BUILD A GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED BY THE “OBAMASYNDICATE”!!! WITH ENOUGHT CONTROL OF THE PEOPLE HE CAN ALMOST GUARANTEE THE REELECTION OF OBAMA AND HIS PARTY.

OBAMAIS DOING EXACTLY AS HE SAID HE WOULD DO. “CHANGE THE COUNTRY”. WELL HE IS DOING IT. HE HAS HIS PRIVATE GOVERNMENT THAT DO NOT HAVE TO ANSWER TO ANYONE! “36 CZARS WHO ARE IN CHARGE OF ALL PARTS OF THE ECONOMY. THEY ONLY ANSWERTO OBAMA. HE IS GOING TO GIVE US SOCIALIZED MEDICINE WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT! ANY CONGRESSMAN WHO DOESN’T VOTE FOR IT WILL BE PUNISHED.

HE IS CHANGING THE CONSTITUTION, AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS

ALSO CHANGING THE WORDING IN DICTONARYS!!!

AND TRYING TO TAKE RELIGION OUT OUT OF OUR LIVES!!!

THE NEW HEALTH CARE BILL WILL COST OVER A TRILLION DOLLARS. DON’T FORGET WE ARE BROKE!!

CZAR OBAMA AND FAMILY ARE TRAVELING AROUND THE WORLD KISSING HANDS AND “ASSES” OF OUR ENEMY’S AND TELLING THE WORLD THAT HE WILL FIX EVERYTHING. HE IS ALWAYS ON THE ROAD IN THIS COUNTRY RUNNING HIS POPULARITY CONTEST.

WHO IS AT THE SWITCH IN WASHINGTON. WHOEVER IT IS ASLEEP.

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS NOT ALLOWED TO VOTE ON NEW LEGISLATION. THE LIBERAL LEFT WINGDEMOCRATS HAVE THE GOVERNMENT ALL TO THEM SELFS. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS OUT TO “LUNCH”

IT IS TIME TO CLEAN OUT WASHINGTON AND START OVER WITH A NEW PARTY AND PEOPLE WHO ARE QUALIFIED TO BE IN GOVERNMENT. THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP, NANCY PELOSI, HARRY REID, BARNY FRANK, CHRIS DODD DON’T HAVE A CLUE AS TO WHAT THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY WANT, AND THEY DON’T CARE.

I believe this country is great because our ancestors were not afraid to stand up and fight for what they considered right. We are the land of the free because we are the home of the brave as demonstrated by America’s next great generation who is out on the front line of freedom.

I cannot stand liberalism and feel it is a disease that eats away, like a cancer, at the fabric of our society. I also believe that if this country does not stop pandering to special interest groups and does not stop taking away the rights guaranteed under our Constitution, and if they do not stop creating a welfare class of dependent people, there will be another civil war. It will start as an uprising to take the government over from the politicians who have lost all touch with the core values of this country. Then anarchy will set in followed by civil war.

So it is up to us to eradicate liberalism so we can prevent the next civil war.

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